The world’s first MARC O’POLO store opens in Düsseldorf, in a franchise partnership.

1983

For the first time, MARC O’POLO creates and produces two collections per season. Today, the company presents eight collections per year.

1987

Werner Böck takes over 40% of the Swedish parent company.

1990

MARC O’POLO initiates the licensing business with shoes, eyewear and underwear.

1997

Werner Böck takes over another almost 40% of the Swedish parent company and founds MARC O’POLO International GmbH, responsible for design, production, marketing and distribution. The company headquarters are relocated from Stockholm, Sweden, to Stephanskirchen, Germany. Since March 1997, MARC O’POLO International GmbH supplies all its European customers through its own central warehouse. MARC O’POLO issues a further license: An accessories line offering bags and small leather goods is launched.

2001

MARC O’POLO moves into a newly constructed administrative building in Stephanskirchen.

2003

MARC O’POLO’s largest store, with a sales area of around 900 square meters, opens in Munich’s Theatinerstraße. The MARC O’POLO eShop launches in Germany: www.marc-o-polo.com.

MARC O’POLO celebrates its 40th anniversary with the “since 67” collection in aid of the UNICEF project “Schools for Africa”.

With the opening of its franchise store in Uppsala, Sweden, MARC O’POLO runs 1,000 stores and shop-in-stores worldwide.

2008

The first MARC O’POLO store in Asia opens in Singapore.

Jürgen Hahn is appointed chief financial officer of MARC O’POLO AG.

2009

MARC O’POLO wins the fashion industry’s “Oscar”, the Forum Award of the German trade journal TextilWirtschaft. The company is chosen for its outstanding entrepreneurial and personal performance, which has had a sustained impact on the development of the fashion industry.

MARC O’POLO Accessories is awarded the ILM (International trade fair for leather goods) Award “BEST OF ILM”. With this prize the city and trade fair Offenbach honors both the innovative design of leather goods and exceptional trade fair presentation.

2010

The MARC O’POLO headquarters in Stephanskirchen is extended with a new logistics building of around 6,000 square meters, a new office building of 1,950 square meters and a multi-story car park with 140 parking spaces.